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Manchuria, Japan's largest state-backed settler project of the 20th century. It was reversed despite appearing unstoppable. (xhslink.com)

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[–] AnarchoBolshevik@lemmygrad.ml 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

a multiyear mass deportation program was begun. By 1948, the Japanese population was nearly entirely deported.

Ugh, I can already imagine anticommunists crying about this, calling it an ‘ethnic cleansing’. It’s already their perspective on the Allied expulsions of German settlers.

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Its different because the expulsions of germans included ethnic groups present before the targeted colonial schemes of Imperial and Nazi Germany. That is not the case with Japanese settlers in Manchuria.

[–] Comprehensive49@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Technically, Japanese people could claim that several centuries ago they traveled from the Chinese mainland to Japan, so they are just taking back their previous homeland. This is the excuse that Israelis use.

[–] demeritum@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Korea used to speak a japonic language until the 7th century, so that would be a better claim.